Yeah, Bitburg
I remember. Although I’ve known people who would disagree to the point, I daresay, of insisting that no German combatant from that conflict deserves a grave marker, there are inevitably military cemeteries full of Wehrmacht dead throughout the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and I haven’t a problem with this myself. Reagan’s visit was, I think, merely tone-deaf (although profoundly so) rather than indicative of actual Nazi sympathies (I wouldn’t extend Trump the benefit of the doubt on this point any farther than I could spit a rat, as Douglas Adams once put it). Recall that Ross insists that the statues of Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forrest, et cetera are to be understood as—well, I’ll let him speak for himself: “If I have any sympathy it is for the common soldier, who was lucky to own livestock, much less a slave, and who felt himself to be defending his country against invaders. And it is he who is represented by the monuments.” So, see, it only looks like a statue of Bloody Bill Anderson, but it’s really a celebration of the brave irregulars who fought for their country.
cordially,
cordially,